The lab was accused of billing Medicare for medically unnecessary respiratory pathogen panel testing.

Federal investigators said the company bundled the tests with COVID-19 screenings at senior living communities, sometimes without valid orders.

Zishan Alvi, the owner of a medical testing laboratory in Chicago, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud on Monday, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Alvi’s ...

A COVID testing lab in Chicago delivered negative results to people before their tests had even been run, federal officials said. The owner and operator, 45-year-old Zishan Alvi, pleaded guilty to ...

Antibody testing shows whether you've had the COVID-19 virus in the past. It's not the same as testing to see whether you have the virus now.

A new biotechnology company in McKinney has ambitions to become the world's first fully integrated platform for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing - the same technology behind a common COVID-19 ...

Remember that the RT-PCR test is just one part of how to diagnose and treat a patient with suspected COVID-19. It is important to look at the rest of the patient’s laboratory results and their images.

MILFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The current Coronavirus chaos is largely caused by phony PCR tests marketed as RT-qPCR assays, explained Dr. Sin Hang Lee, director of Milford, Connecticut-based ...

“Infectious diseases don’t respect borders,” says Khoa Thai, a clinical microbiologist at the Star-shl medical diagnostics laboratory in the Netherlands. To limit their spread, we need a globally ...

New findings from the RECOVER-Adult cohort study show that 25 routine clinical lab tests are not effective in diagnosing postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, echoing results from earlier ...

The co-owner of a Chicago COVID-19 testing laboratory was sentenced to seven years in federal prison Wednesday for a fraud scheme in which in which his company provided fake negative results to people ...